With all the culinary contests scheduled, I'm sure Morning Call columnist and gourmand Bill White will be there. I'm talking about the Great Allentown Fair. I go there for the pigs myself. One act you'll miss this year is the Lehigh County GOP.Inside word is they've decided against the $900 cost for a booth this year. Republicans being Republicans, they've apparently done a financial analysis and concluded that the ROI is too small. They'd much rather pay for an unelected "Executive Director," whatever the hell that is. It does sound important. Oh yeah, and appoint "captains."
That leaves everyone at the mercy of the Democrats. Who the hell do you think is doing all those freak shows?
No need for a booth when we've got you. Your work for our candidate has been invaluable. We ought to send you $900.
ReplyDeleteWaste of money. We stopped going about 5 or 6 years ago, when the crowds became more scary than the freakshow.
ReplyDeleteThe kind of thing Bill White should stick to, though. He makes you look like the grand libertarian. I called him out his defense of the "It's really a community center and it's not at ground zero" victory center, and he deleted my post. It was tough, but no profanity or personal attack. Just repudiation of his DNC talking points and his weak blogging skills.
Molovinsky suggested he read up on the history of mosque building, Cordoba in particular. It was obvious Billy had no real knowledge or interest in informed debate, but chose to bloviate anyway.
The Fair is more White's speed. As evidenced by your work on Gracedale, the Callahan story and other solid works of LV bloggers, White, the Morning Stall and the Depressed Times have been left behind. Far behind. In the dust.
It's a good plan. They know there aren't any young people who support the Republican Party, so what's the point in even talking to them?
ReplyDeleteThis is a really bad decision.
ReplyDeleteI don't know the exact attendance, but the Allentown Fair will attract over a hundred thousand people during its week-long run.
Even non-political people are fed up with the Democrats being in charge and the Fair is an opportunity to reach out and meet people on their own terms (people can CHOOSE to visit the GOP booth).
Instead, (at best) the local GOP will be hunkered-down somewhere making phone calls or going door-to-door and INTRUDING on people's Labor Day weekend.
Brilliant!
Mr. Geeting, be honest, you made the suggestion, didn't you?
ReplyDeleteHundreds of thousands attend the Allentown fair. This is actually one place many people come with the expectation of talking to local political candidates.
ReplyDeleteThe local Repubs will continue to moan about how everything is the fault of blind Democrats and wonder why they have no support.
"Molovinsky suggested he read up on the history of mosque building, Cordoba in particular."
ReplyDeleteI actually believe, strangely enough, that Callahan has this right. I think it's a local issue, best left to NYers to decide. They don't need out help just as we don't need theirs.
I don't like the name Cordoba at all. If I were a NYer, I'd really ask Muslims to rethink their decision, but this is America.
The 9/11 attack wasn't an attack on the locals. It was an attack on America and on freedom. The dead buried at ground zero hailed from many locales.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20014737-503544.html
CBS. Hardly a vast rightwing conspiracy pollster.
There is no disputing the legal right to build that center. Almost all who believe it is wrong to build acknowledge the legal right to do so. Again, we return to what is legal and what is right.
Never forget one of the enemy's important tenets: "We will use their laws to defeat them".
A big part of that decision comes from the placement of the booth. It was buried back by the farm animals.
ReplyDeleteYet, the dem booth is placed by the main gate.
Anonymous 7:11 is lying/mistaken. I didn't delete any posts on that subject.
ReplyDeleteOMG BERNIE YOU ARE SO FUNNNNNNNY.
ReplyDeleteBut seriously, typical republican fiscal management.
I'm sure Charlie Dent has given you enough lit to hand out around the main gates though, right?
ReplyDeleteBernie
ReplyDeleteDoes this make any sense? You mean Pat Toomey and Charlie Dent can't afford $900. People like to stop by these tables and talk to the volunteers and receive literature. Don't these gruops also register voters?
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteA big part of that decision comes from the placement of the booth. It was buried back by the farm animals.
Yet, the dem booth is placed by the main gate.
10:36 AM
Oh, this does make sense now.
Bill White -
ReplyDeleteNot lying or mistaken. Perhaps you have some technical issue, if in fact you didn't delete. Worked just as did my comment, still showing, from 8:10 this a.m.
Sorry for the thread jack, Bernie. Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
We still think this fair is important enough for the local Republican Party to try to figure something out. What if they offered to pay all expenses plus a bonus to someone who has a display closer to the front of the building in exchange for taking their spot? We know this type of expense would not be covered under contributions but would have to be privately paid for, but it's possible. To have no Republican presence at the fair may look like the Republicans are so sure of themselves this year, they don't ever have to bother asking for votes and this may turn some voters off.
ReplyDeleteLANCASTER, Pa. (AP) -- A new poll shows Republican Pat Toomey slightly ahead of Democrat Joe Sestak in their U.S. Senate race.
ReplyDeleteThe Franklin & Marshall College poll shows Toomey with the support of 40 percent of likely voters to Sestak's 31 percent. About a quarter remain undecided with about 9 weeks left until the November 2 general election.
Toomey and Sestak are vying for the seat currently held by Arlen Specter, who was knocked off by Sestak in the primary.
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Thursday's poll also shows Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Corbett leading his Democratic counterpart. The state attorney general has an 11-point lead over Allegheny County executive Dan Onorato with 31 percent of likely voters undecided.
The poll of 577 Pennsylvanians was conducted the week ending Monday. The sampling error margin is plus or minus 5.4 percentage points.
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"A big part of that decision comes from the placement of the booth. It was buried back by the farm animals. Yet, the dem booth is placed by the main gate."
ReplyDeleteThen why not do something about that instead of taking your marbles and going home? This is a missed opportunity. You could even make a fuss about the unfairness of where you are placed vis-a-vis the Dems.
No Bernie you should make a fuss. File some right to know requests and fill out some Allentown Fair forms, maybe an undercover sting of the booth planning commission. Or better yet just sue everyone with your astute legal skillz and get to the bottom of Boothgate 2010.
ReplyDeleteSomebody needs to give his nappy.
ReplyDeleteI heard a rumor that Scott Ott is being paid $40,000 a year plus health benefits to do what ever he
ReplyDeletedoes (not a whole lot other than sending out an e-mail newsletter
a couple of times a month). Perhaps you might want to check out the Lehigh Co GOP finance reports at the Court House.
Somebody needs to give his nappy.
ReplyDelete12:47 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I heard a rumor that Scott Ott is being paid $40,000 a year plus health benefits to do what ever he
does (not a whole lot other than sending out an e-mail newsletter
a couple of times a month). Perhaps you might want to check out the Lehigh Co GOP finance reports at the Court House.
2:04 PM
Is this public information?
Given Congress's 11% approval rating, and the state of politics, in general, I think most Fairgoers will appreciate politicians staying far away from the shoo fly pie. If Ds insist upon going, they should participate in a dunk tank, since things are likely to be thrown at them anyway.
ReplyDeleteWhen will you be filing right to know requests on this Bernie?
ReplyDeleteWhy do you pretend to be non-partisan sometimes?
ReplyDeleteThe Lehigh Valley Tea party group, which is non-partisan and non-political, WILL be at the Allentown Fair, in the Farmer's market building in the Mary Ann Donut Shop booth.
ReplyDeleteWe'll have pocket constitutions, patriotic jewelry hand made in Allentown, and more information about our group (which you can also find at
www.lehighvalleyteaparty.org.)
We will NOT have information about candidates or political parties, and the people at the booth aren't politicians, they're just members who care.
If anyone would like to chat about limited government, lower taxes, and the Constitution, please stop by!
Donna